In plain words: Instead of one model teaching itself, several copies of the same model talk to each other and each is trained separately on those conversations, so they become specialists. This keeps varied reasoning paths alive and keeps improving for many more rounds than a single model training itself.
Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in recent years but are fundamentally limited by the underlying training data. To improve models beyond the training data, recent works have explored how LLMs can be used to generate synthetic data for autonomous self-improvement. However, successive steps of self-improvement can reach a point of diminishing returns. In this work, we propose a complementary approach towards self-improvement where finetuning is applied to a multiagent society of language models. A group of language models, all starting from the same base model, are independently specialized by updating each one using data generated through multiagent interactions among the models. By training each model on independent sets of data, we illustrate how this approach enables specialization across models and diversification over the set of models. As a result, our overall system is able to preserve diverse reasoning chains and autonomously improve over many more rounds of fine-tuning than single-agent self-improvement methods. We quantitatively illustrate the efficacy of the approach across a wide suite of reasoning tasks.
Vighnesh Subramaniam, Yilun Du, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Antonio Torralba, Shuang Li, Igor Mordatch
arXiv:2501.05707 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Jan 10, 2025 · updated Mar 3, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · ICLR 2025; 22 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables; Project page at https://llm-multiagent-ft.github.io/